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We Feel Your Pain. Really. We Do.

Posted on | February 3, 2010 | 4 Comments

Bwaaahahahahaha!

Earlier that morning, CBS News executives and bureau chiefs, led by senior vice president Linda Mason, told their employees that 2009 had been a disastrous year in the ad market. They had no cable operation to buoy the sinking revenues. It’s not you, was the message, it’s us. Dozens of employees — including staff members in D.C., San Francisco, Miami, London, Los Angeles and Moscow — were being let go. The changes were effective immediately. There would be no buyouts. According to one longtime staff member, the network had long ago negotiated away most of the severance clauses in staff members’ contracts.
But in the end, the cuts were surprisingly deep. By Monday afternoon, staffers from Washington to L.A. were sputtering in disbelief as they heard of top producers on the chopping block.

“Add these to the jobs not saved category.” I think I just heard General Westmoreland‘s ghost laughing at that joke.

Category: CBS, humor, Media Bias, Neutral Objective Journalism

Comments

4 Responses to “We Feel Your Pain. Really. We Do.”

  1. thatsright
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 8:36 pm

    Stacey, I heard on Rush today that they were starting to lean on Katie to cough up some of her $14 million to help ease the pain.

    Not sure if that was a Rush insider special, but let’s see if the pot doesn’t fight back if a contract “renegotiation” is in the works.

    CBS denies:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/cbs-news-president-denies_n_447882.html

    Yeh…we’ll see.

  2. thatsright
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 3:36 pm

    Stacey, I heard on Rush today that they were starting to lean on Katie to cough up some of her $14 million to help ease the pain.

    Not sure if that was a Rush insider special, but let’s see if the pot doesn’t fight back if a contract “renegotiation” is in the works.

    CBS denies:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/cbs-news-president-denies_n_447882.html

    Yeh…we’ll see.

  3. filbert
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 11:48 pm

    I think you missed the obvious joke/post title:

    Bad Day At Black Rock.

  4. filbert
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 6:48 pm

    I think you missed the obvious joke/post title:

    Bad Day At Black Rock.